Are You a Selfish Blogger?
Until yesterday, I had no idea that I was being a selfish hostess on my blogs to the point of even cheating YOU out outbound links - even when you would place your website URL in the optional field of the comment form. It wasn’t being recognized.
Most everyone who has a blog or a website will know that improving the Google Page Rank of your site is key when it comes to 1. being found 2. increasing your audience and 3. increasing your strength in the area of monetizing (more money!).
That’s all been fixed now!
Now you can get a nice outbound link simply by leaving a comment on my blog with your website or blog URL added to the optional ‘website’ field in the comment form found attached to any post here on MomGadget.
Now that I’ve stopped being a stingy blogger - every comment or trackback you leave here on MomGadget will result in an outgoing link from my site to yours. The search engines LOVE this! And YOU will too!
Can you believe the majority of blogs don’t allow this? Most blogging software has “rel=nofollow†automatically added to comment URLs. Initially, it was a good idea and was created to combat spam, but with programs like Akismet, there’s really no reason to cheat yourself and your readers out of this rewarding link collaboration. And it’s much better then doing a blogroll!
I took the advice of David and Dawud and have installed the Wordpress plugin that removes the “nofollow†code, because I want to be a generous blogger and to encourage more discussion here on MomGadget.
Don’t be shy! Comment and link! It’s a good thing 
I’m also going to follow suit and link to a few others who have taken this same position — so commenting on any of the following blogs will also provide outbound links pointing right to you!
Generous Link Loving Bloggers:
- Gaya McCord of MomGadget and all my other blogs (that’s me)
- Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home
- David Airey of Creative Design
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com
- Chris Cree of SuccessCREEations
- Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design
- Char of Essential Keystroke
- Chris Garrett of chrisg.com
- Andy Beard of AndyBeard.eu
- David Paul Robinson of davidpaulrobinson.com
- Lars-Christian of Lars-Christian.com
- Char also of Casual Keystrokes
- Michelle of Scribbit
- Ponn Sabra of Empower Women Now
- Jason of Webomatica
- Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings
- Mario of mariosalexandrou.com
- Lisa Mills of Work at Home Revolution
- Aaron Potts of Today is That Day
- Heather of Home Ec 101
- Laura Spencer of Writing Thoughts
- Steve James of Babblz and Fresh Yields
- KWiz of Wisdom Walking
- Phil Nash of Unintentionally Blank
- Doris of Home Office Women, Live Life Organics and Your Health, DorisGoesShopping, and Doris Chua
- Lillie Ammann of A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye
- Cass of Cass Knits
- Mark Robinson of Mark Robinson.ca
- Your Name Here
If you add remove the nofollow and add dofollow to your blog, please let me know. I’d love to send happy commentors your way!
Tags: blogging, marketing, networking, link exchange, wordpress, nofollow, dofollow
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Thank you for this information.
I always wondered about this “no follow” because it’s pretty easy to delete comments that are SPAM anyway. I am still learning about blogs so i’m reading all i can get my hands on!
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Here’s a question…how do you know someone is spamming? I mean, I could be spamming right now, here to “only” get a link in - or, I could actually be contributing to the conversation and dropping a link at the same time.
I mean…I know it’s confusing but I always delete the posts that really just have nothing to say. Spammer or no…either way, there is no contribution to my converation. So..If a spammer takes part in conversation, are they still a spammer?
Heart and Style is now a “do follow” site.
I’ve also joined the u comment i follow movement and written a post about it. Let’s hope more people jump on board and do so! This can only help one’s page rank etc.
Great info. I had no idea “u comment” existed. I plan on making good use of it!
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This is a great blog with great information. It is very hard to find the right information when you are new to blogging
Thanks for the great information.
Can a newbie like me join this? i would love to join such a happy group. Please check my site if you would not mind. I searched for people with U comment , I follow tag and ended up here. Thanks.
I have added the plugin for both the Babblz Blog and on Fresh Yields.
Nice post. Have added you on RSS to keep myself updated.
Hi and thanks for the list.
I’m also a Do-Follower, if you could add my site it would be appreciated.
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This is great. You are thinking about others as well. I have made my 12 blogs Do Follow. It won’t harm you and you will get visitors on your blog.
Great post!…and no, you’re not a selfish blogger! I think we all can be at times, but that’s just the nature of blogging - you gotta do what it takes to make you blog visible so people can read your stuff.
No, I don’t think that you are a selfish blogger either.
My blogs are set up to allow comments, but they cannot be brief (one-liners) nor do I approve comments that are “attaboy” in nature.
U Follow/I Follow is meant to remind people that their comments are welcome, but they have to be relevant. In other words, spammers need not stop by!
Cool, I’m going to use this on my blog, thanks indeed
My blogs have become dofollow. I would love it you added them to your list.
http://www.allwired.com/blog/
http://www.rocknrollview.com
http://www.hdmusicvideosonline.com
Sharing the love with links will definitely increase the amount of traffic to your site, and as pointed out doesn’t hurt the site one bit. Thank you.
Nice to see you came to your senses. I have always let legitimate bloggers link from their comments. The nofollow does not bleed my rank at all, and how does it hurt.
I still see many bloggers who will not approve comments from another blogger (especially if their blog looks REALLY good) because they fear their audience will skip off and they’ll lose them.
The VERY point of blogging is destroyed with this anal and egoic mindset.
Welcome back to a friendly universe.
thanks much for a do follow, more power to you..so unselfish of you great
Great Blog. Just not sure why I am up at 3 a.m. reading this.